Even Cary Fukunaga Has No Idea What’s Going on with True Detective’s Season 2

Like the rest of us, Cary Fukunaga, who produced and directed the True Detective series, claims to be in the dark about Season 2. “I got nothing to say right now,” Fukunaga told VF Daily at a screening of Very Good Girls on Monday. “I have the excuse of having been out of the loop, because I’ve been in Africa the last five months. I just made a film with Idris Elba called Beasts of No Nation, and I just got back this weekend, so I’m still jet-lagged.”

Fukunaga says he is attached to Season 2 as an executive producer. “The scripts aren’t done yet, you know, they’re still trying to figure out talent and the pilot, so I’m sure all that’s coming together right now,” he said.

Very Good Girls is screenwriter Naomi Foner’sdirectorial debut, and Fukunaga, an old friend, served as one of the co-hosts for the screening at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in Manhattan.

“I wanted to see a movie that I wasn’t able to see when I was this age,” Foner explained about the plot of the teen coming-of-age story starring Dakota Fanningand Elizabeth Olsen. “I was always shown movies in which I was identifying with some feisty young guy. I’ve seen a lot of coming-of-age stories about men, but I’ve rarely seen one from the point of view of young women.”

“I don’t think I really knew how much she wanted to direct until recently,” said Foner’s daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal. “Although I think she always did, kind of secretly.”

Gyllenhaal stars in The Honourable Woman, a British mini-series in which she plays a woman trying to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians. With conflict raging in the Middle East, the show’s U.S. debut on July 31 is eerily timely. “I think that at this moment, in this country, it’s difficult to find a space to both think about and talk about what’s happening in Israel and Palestine,” Gyllenhaal told VF Daily. “There’s a kind of fear around it, which I completely understand. And I hope that our series will be, literally, one hour a week to give yourself the space to think for yourself, and feel for yourself, about what’s happening there.” The actress says that in order to do the role, she had to get much more informed about what’s going on in the region. “That made me emotionally connected to it in a way that I wasn’t before.”